p. 16 | A Not Uncommon Kind

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 2, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 40.

A Not Uncommon Kind.

The “Spectator” in the Outlook tells of a woman who employed a colored girl who had just “come through,” or gotten religion. The girl was set to churn, but obtained very little butter from the cream. She was afterward caught with a package of a pound or so, which she was carrying to her “mother in the Gospel,” an older woman in the church who helped her “come ‘through.’” A certain degree of excitement had been reached, but no change in character. There is a great deal of this sort of religion, thus expressed by an enthusiastic colored man: “I’se done broke ‘eb’ery one ob de commandments, but bless de Lord, ‘I habn’t lost my religion.” An honest colored man, recommending an honest cook, said: “O, she’s a ‘first-rate woman, Mis’ Lou; she aint got no bad ‘ways, and she doan’t nebber go to chu’ch.” O, how many need to be taught the better way; that true Christianity changes heart and life and character.